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'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 3 days agoThis pioneering technique makes use of tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart as a...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 3 days agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOne problem is that we've seen very large black holes at the beginning of the Universe, too soon for them to have had time to grow by this slow route. A...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 2 days agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Merger Yet
ExtremeTech· 5 days agoAstronomers have been probing the secrets of black holes for decades, gaining an impressive understanding of these extreme objects, and we have the pictures to prove it. It's still unclear how ...
Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action - NASA
NASA· 3 days agoA team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are
Lense–Thirring precession after a supermassive black hole disrupts a star - Nature
Nature· 3 days ago33, the redshift of 0.0705 of AT2020ocn corresponds to a luminosity distance of 330 Mpc. NICER started monitoring AT2020ocn on 11 July 2020, roughly 10 weeks after ZTF discovered it on 29 April ...
James Webb Space Telescope spots 3 of our universe's earliest galaxies
SPACE.com· 20 hours agoAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found what they say are three of our...
More Evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background of the Universe
Universe Today· 7 days agoThe gravitational wave background was first detected in 2016. It was announced following the release...
